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Friday, October 14, 2011

Destruction Before Reconstruction: FINAL REVEAL

After a month of work, and a month of teasing you, the master bedroom makeover is complete. I’m so excited to share the final product with you! Are you ready for this?! Many of you requested a video, so this is my first video I’ve posted on Life with the Hawleys; just for you :-)

Before I show you the “new” bedroom, let’s take a walk down memory lane with what our bedroom used to look like, just so you can remember how far we’ve come.

This was our bed without a headboard, and this was our bedding- shiney right? lol

This was the old version of the nightstand and the lamp from college.

The armoire with my ancient boom box hahaha I am still laughing about this.

This is Phil’s dresser that matches the rest of the furniture (though in the picture it looks like a completely different color- weird)….we actually didn’t do anything to this.

Every night I threw (pun intended) the throw pillows on the floor in an “orderly” fashion.

I also had some “wonderful” decorations in our room…..more like I had a bunch of random junk, including a painting, change bucket, and sparkly Christmas mistletoe (oh yes, real classy in August hahaha)…..this place was a disaster zone! Ok I was wrong. The real disaster zone was my closet! (insert horror movie scream here) This was our laundry system that we rigged to the wall to keep Tomlin from parading our personals around the house. Talk about embarrassing!

See ya ugly, random, left-over college junk, bedroom! We will NOT be missing you!

Now that we’ve reviewed and paid our last respects to the former bedroom, let's watch the video of the new room!!!!

I’ve gotten so many great tips, comments, and suggestions from all of you, so you can take credit for this room because you were so influential and inspirational :-) Thank you, Thank you; I million times: THANK YOU!!!!

Please let me know what you think! Did I keep with the theme well? Do I have a southern accent (lol)? Is it rustic romance? Is it shabby chic? Do you have a favorite part? Where are my areas for improvement?

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I love the way the shutters turned out! Congrats on finishing the room, it looks great!

Love it! The entire room turned out great! However, you were missed one HUGE part of the bed... TOMLIN!!! I know that's why the door was shut because she would have been all over that video following her mommy around! And I saw her halloween costumes in your closet! =)

I really love your new space! The little details you've added have made a really big difference! Great job! Your headboard is my favorite! And the bedding looks so whimsical! Great job! And you are so super cute on the video. :)

I love how it all came together! It was fun looking at everything all redone! Ok, so I love the coffee maker in the closet, genius! :) And I can't believe you got rid of the boom box, haaha. The new bedding is awesome too. I love it all, great job!

everything looks great, Darby!! the only thing I can think of to add would be something directly over the headboard between the 2 sconces. I think large letters that say "Mrs. & Mrs." would be adorable! (I've seen it on Pinterest) You really did a great job! I think my favorite part would be the shutter picture holder!

Wahoo! I feel like I just went to a big reveal night! Like all your other posts were just trailers and now we got to see the feature presentation! I absolutely love it! I love the bedding and the curtains! I also really like the chair/pillow/picture corner! So sweet! And of course I love that too cute message board. Job well done Hawleys!!!! I hope to see it in person real soon! :) Super impressed

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Love all the little changes/additions.... the shutters, wall sconces, hanging shelf, trunk, etc. Especially love the blue picture shutter! Did you distress it or did it come that way? I might need one of those!

This is amazing! I love it! The little blue accents are too cute - the blue curly "H" and the shutter are just gorgeous! It looks so pretty and professionally done! Want to decorate my apartment? It comes with more dog clothes and waaaaaaaay too many books! : )

LOVE it!!! I am so excited to finally see the big reveal and I just love everything about it, Darby! {Love that you posted a video, too!} We can really get a feel for what the room looks like as a whole. Everything just came together so well and looks beautiful! The hamper & trunk coordinate so well together and I love the different textures you used (linen curtains, burlap lampshade) I especially love your little reading corner! I am so not surprised about the coffee maker in your closet, knowing what a coffee lover you are! Can't wait to hear the story! :)

Darby it looks amazing!! It definitely does have a rustic romance look to it - I love it! My favorite parts are the wicker chair with the pretty pillows and the shutter behind it with the pictures. AND your linens - that sham with the ruffle is so dainty and perfect! everything looks great - you put a ton of work into it and it looks great!